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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Gilbert B Norman: [QB] Possibly a premature hope, but, if as this [URL=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/15/opinion/biden-putin-ukraine.html?unlocked_article_code=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACEIPuomT1JKd6J17Vw1cRCfTTMQmqxCdw_PIxftm3iWka3DPDm8fiOMNAo6B_EGKb6tvat12xymHRdkELbw1Tf10w6lfI0lpAUGOk6ezpa4kcW8zuJ7hGSQ_xY7MVrQ1tjbjYjfhdO0igbTgtkzDbTS8W7iPhXIhOA9upMYxJVug3XENkbzXUbIggqkI1v8gB596TToKdXPK66GuU0MiTY3AOhLM6QA2WPVbWiXQmrOc67EGcAZVADHWXS81oDZ8uJ4HZoRhbOuoJAUgecH-nbwQFmRiSYyqDJAyTITe_K54hTgOHxsHdwUjELcnZLEWUw&smid=url-share] Times[/URL] columnist Thomas L. Freidman thinks just might be possible, the world will be a better place if Joe can pull this off: Fair Use: [i][list] [*]The Ukraine story is far from over. But if Vladimir Putin opts to back away from invading Ukraine, even temporarily, it’s because Joe Biden — that guy whose right-wing critics suggest is so deep in dementia he wouldn’t know Kyiv from Kansas or AARP from NATO — has matched every Putin chess move with an effective counter of his own. Putin has been on such a run of outmaneuvering the West and destabilizing our politics that it is easy to overrate him. It is also hard to believe a word that comes out of his mouth. But if Putin was sincere when he said Tuesday that he was “ready to continue on the negotiating track” to ensure that Ukraine never joins NATO and was also pulling back some of his menacing forces — U.S. officials say there’s no sign of that yet — it’s because Biden’s statecraft has given Putin pause.[/i] [/list] It's all transactional with Putin. If he thinks he can attack Ukraine and they surrender, they're back under his thumb. But if both Joe and columnist Tom Freidman hold, Putin has more to lose from not being able to complete world currency transactions ($,€,¥) and Europe can get the energy they need from other sources, his oligarch pals will cease to be just that and they even could conspire to overthrow him. Khrushchev backed down when he realized JFK meant business. Being the "Sov at heart" he appears to be, Putin could well do same and this crisis ends without a shot. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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